I'm a university science writer and freelancer with more than 20 years of experience helping the public understand science, and scientists from different disciplines understand each other. To me, the most rewarding story to write is one that helps researchers discover new opportunities for collaboration.

My work falls into three main categories: traditional PR, traditional journalism, and a growing hybrid area that I like to call "journalism-adjacent." (Hey, it's a little better than "sorta journalism" and way better than "not journalism." Whatever.)

One university's story of using reddit to promote research

In this presentation from ScienceWriters 2016, I explain the basics of communicating science on reddit—everything from how to share institutional news releases to having researchers perform reddit AMAs. Here's a PDF of my PowerPoint and a summary of the talk. The reddit science moderators have also created a submission guide that is absolutely vital to success.